Boiler washing-machine



(No Model.)

J. PORTER &-H. B. KEPPERLING.

BOILER WASHING MAGHINE.

Patented Nov. 17, 1885.

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JOHN PORTER AND HENRY B. KEPPERLING, OF CLEVELAND, OHIO.

BOILER WASHING-MACHINE.

SPECIFICATION forming part of Letters Patent No. 330,735, dated November 17, 1885.

Application filed July 28, 1884. Serial No. 138,936. (No model.)

To all whom it may concern.-

Be it known that we, JOHN PORTER and HENRY B. KEPPERLING, both of Cleveland, in the county of Cuyahoga and State of Ohio, haveinvented certain'new and useful Improvements in Boiler Washing-Machines, of which the following is a specification.

Our invention relates to washing-machines in which a rotary cylindrical Washer is contained in a wash-boiler; and it consists of the combination,with said rotary cylinder, of peculiarly-constructed clothes-retaining shelves or wings located crosswise and near the periphery of said cylinderin such a manner that as the cylinder is slowly rotated the clothes are held until the shelf arrives in the upper part of the cylinder as it revolves, and then they are dropped off, sliding over the corrugated surface of said shelves into the water, and are again caught by the succeding shelves and treated in like manner. In thus sliding off the shelves and tumbling down the clothes are effectually washed, quickly saturating and removing the dirt therefrom.

In the drawings, Figure 1 is a perspective view, Fig. 2 is a vertical longitudinal section, and Fig. 3 is a vertical transverse section, of our new washing-machine.

A is a waslrboiler provided with an arched cover, B, which may be removed when required for getting at the interior of the machine.

Cl is a cylinder provided with journals 0 at the center, one of which terminates with a crank, or may have a loose crank attached. Said journals revolve in suitable bearings fixed in the sides of the boiler A. The cylinder is divided at a, and the two parts are hinged together, for obvious reasons. The periphery of the cylinder is also pierced at intervals with rows of holes 6 e, and theheads also haveholes near the outer edge.

D D are shelves or wings secured at suitable intervals across from head to head in said cylinder. culiar form and for peculiar purpose, as follows:' They consist of plates D, having an enlargement at their inner edges in the form of corrugated flanges d d, the object of which is to hold the clothes upon them as the cylinder revolves, and when the shelf arrives in the upper part of the cylinder in its revolutions the clothes fall over the said corrugated edges, and as they do so are rubbed thereon, as well as rubbed together in their fall. The clothes are thus effectually rubbed and thoroughly washed. The tumbling of the clothes also opens them out, separating them, so that steam easily penetrates all pa1'ts,'thereby facilitating the cleansing process.

We are awarethat heretofore revolving-cylinder washing-machines have been provided These wings we construct in a peinternally with hinged paddles or dashers to beat or rub the clot-hes. We are also aware that it is not broadly new to provide a revolving washing cylinder with transverse Wings. Hence we do not claim, broadly, such a com bination; but

What we do claim is- 1. The conibination,with a revolving washing-machine cylinder, of stationary transverse shelves or wings, the inner ends of which are enlarged and corrugated, substantially as set forth.

2. The combination, with the boiler, of a cylinder supported to revolve therein,and perforated as described, and a series of stationary wings or shelves arranged within the cylinder substantially opposite each other in pairs, the inner ends or edges of said wings or shelves being enlarged and corrugated, substantially as and for the purpose set forth.

JOHN PORTER. HENRY B. KEPPERLING.

Witnesses:

E. XV. LAIRD, GEO. W. TIBBITTS. 

